"I help college applicants write compelling, effective application essays.

The application process is daunting for many students. Writing is challenging, but it becomes even more so when you have to come up with a narrative about yourself. Drawing on twenty years' teaching experience and my background as an author published with Harvard University Press, I help students overcome their fears and lead them through every step of the writing process.

MY APPROACH

I adopt a streamlined approach to the essay writing process by

-Connecting with students to draw out the best possible application narrative.

-Helping students overcome their fear of writing.

-Breaking down the writing process into achievable tasks.

My students find that after just a few sessions, they have already made significant progress on their college essays.

MY BACKGROUND

After teaching history at UC Berkeley for ten years, I was elected to a faculty position in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Given my passion for good, clear writing, I wrote an academic book that received a wide readership and was widely discussed in international media. Since 2016, I have focused on helping students with their admissions essays.

For undergraduate applicants, I can help with the Common App main essay, supplemental essays, UC personal insight questions (PIQs), and transfer essays; for graduate applicants, I can help with medical school essays, business school essays, and law school essays.

MY TRACK RECORD

Over the past seven years, my clients have been accepted into many top schools across the United States, including:

-Harvard University

-Yale University

-Stanford University

-Princeton University

-University of Chicago

-Columbia University

-MIT

-Cornell

-Brown

-Dartmouth

-Williams College

-Swarthmore College

-Johns Hopkins

-UC Berkeley

-UCLA

-UC Davis

-UC San Diego

-UC Irvine

-Pomona College

-University of Michigan

-Boston University

-Northwestern

-Vanderbilt

-NYU

-USC" less...